The past week, two shootings — one of which has everyone talking and the other, for reasons that escape me, appears almost nowhere in mainstream media — have caused me to come back to the keyboard. The first shooting you know all about: the senseless killing of 12 people and wounding of 58 others at a midnight screening of Dark Knight Rises, the latest Batman movie, by a crazy man who apparently believes he is the Joker. The second shooting doesn’t have as many people upset.

Maybe that’s because it’s normal for the police to shoot into crowds of women and children in America.

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